The 2026 Breakthrough Prizes were announced over the weekend.
#mathematics #math #prize
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We too started running to relieve stress in grad school, but it was over a decade later that we ran our first marathon.
#mathematics #math #trivia
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A morbid round up from Scott Aaronson.
#ComputerScience #CompSci #obit
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Proof is back on Broadway, and this time around the Times doesn't like it.
#mathematics #math #art #theatre
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My intent was to ask about the zeros, but my fingers did not cooperate. 😊

#mathematics #math #humor

#mathematics #math #geometry
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After fights over social studies standards, conservative activists come for math - The Hechinger Report Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning.  This story also appeared in Chalkbeat and South Dakota Searchlight The propose...

Here is the missing link. hechingerreport.org/social-studi...

"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems "-Alfréd Rényi
Often misattributed to Paul Erdős
#mathematics #math #AppliedMath
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MAGA is working on making America dumber.
#MathEd #policy #MathStandards
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3Blue1Brown looks at the math behind Escher's art.
#mathematics #math #transformations #art
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#mathematics #math #humor

Catching up with Yitang Zhang who shot to fame in 2013 with the publication of his paper "Bounded Gaps Between Primes." Today, he is part of the brain drain that is fueled by the U.S.'s turn to fascism .
#mathematics #math #politics
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Although, Mochizuki says he is only interested in convincing others of what he is already convinced of.

Two team independent teams of mathematicians, one lead by Mochizuki , are using Lean to try to verify Mochizuki's claimed proof of the ABC-conjecture. 🧵
#mathematics #math #NumberTheory #abcconjecture
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R.I.P.
#AppliedMath #probability #GameTheory #obit
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FYI
#mathematics #math #academia #protest
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#statistics #stat #humor

This result is is, for us, the most fascinating result in calculus.
#mathematics #math #calculus #series
Source:https://x.com/fermatslibrary/status/2039081208043249689

Here is another perspective on teaching math. We think that the approach outlined in the article we linked to this morning gets it right.
#MathEd
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#MathEd

Gil Kalai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem , and Nissan Hajaj , Google Research, have proposed a variant on the Polymath project which opens participation to AI agents.
#mathematics #math #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #polymath

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Meanwhile, in Escher's backyard.
#physics #humor

Jordan S. Ellenberg uncovers a small gem from the past, that in a quirky way, sheds light on the present state of Higher Ed. Note that the problems of college girls are not of concern.
#HigherEd #academia
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#mathematics #math #arithmetic #HistoryofMath
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PS. I had to look up Klowden, her bio is the second link.
#mathematics #math #MetaMath #ArtificialIntelligence #AI
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Klowden:https://buff.ly/2qcXz7k

Terry Tao uploaded to ArXiv a longer version of a Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Mathematics paper he co-authored with Tanya Klowden on the philosophical implications of AI for mathematics. 🧵

When heuristics fail.
#mathematics #math #physics
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We couldn't resist posting this. 😋
#physics #E&M #humor

In our post yesterday afternoon, we alluded to the long history of mathematicians catching errors in physics papers. Here is a recent example.
#mathematics #math #physics #gravitaion #Whoops
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